Category: Bad Behavior

(I’ve just been hired on the Loss Prevention/Security team at an electronics store I regularly frequent. My manager is taking me through my first day’s training. It should be noted that LP has a different staff id badge design to the rest of the employees.)

Manager: “Now the one thing you need to remember, customers tend to behave differently around security personnel.”

Manager: “That’s what I was referring to about us getting a different treatment.”

(True to form, the entire time I worked there as LP customers would stop me, then walk off when they saw I wasn’t a regular store employee, adamant that apparently the folk whose entire job is to walk the store and know where everything is meant to be couldn’t possibly help them out.)

(At my store, the manager instituted a policy that if a customer is on their phone, we’re not to wait on them until they finish. A customer comes in, busy making a call on his phone, and per policy, we wait to service them.)

Customer: *after some time, angrily* “Excuse me? I’ve been waiting for five minutes! Is someone going to help me?”

Manager: “Sir, we’d be happy to help you as soon as you finish up with your call.”

Customer: “Are you kidding me? I’m not hanging up my important call for you b****es!”

(The manager walks away. The rest of us don’t dare to go over to him again. After a while, the customer completely loses it.)

(We have to have customers sign a copyright release form if they print pictures that they do not own the rights to, such as an image of a celebrity they found off of Google. It makes sure we’re not the ones liable for printing it. A man made a poster of a foreign prince and I attach to the poster the form to sign. A customer comes up to the counter about an hour later and my coworker is assisting him. It’s the man with the poster.)

Coworker: “Sorry, sir, do you own the rights to this photo?”

Customer: “It’s a stock photo I found on Google! What the h*** are you talking about?!”

Coworker: “Well, if you found it on Google, it is copyrighted and we need you to sign this form.”

Customer: “It’s a stock photo! Of course I don’t own the rights!”

Coworker: “Yep, and we need you to sign this release form so you can have the photo.”

Customer: “You’re so stupid! You’re stupid! It’s a stock photo! Off Google! I have every right to have it!”